Louis the Sixteenth

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• Louis the sixteenth — n. Louis XVI (1754 1793), king of France from 1774 who was deposed in 1792, last king of France before the French Revolution, executed by guillotine in 1793 together with his wife Marie Antoinette …   English contemporary dictionary

• Louis XVI — n. Louis the sixteenth (1754 1793), king of France from 1774 who was deposed in 1792, last king of France before the French Revolution, executed by guillotine in 1793 together with his wife Marie Antoinette …   English contemporary dictionary

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• Louis de Broglie — Born 15 August 1892(1892 08 15) Dieppe, France …   Wikipedia

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• Louis Leo Snyder — (1907 1993) was an American born German scholar who witnessed the Nazi mass meetings and wrote about them in Hitlerism: The Iron Fist in Germany . He successfully predicted Adolf Hitler s rise to power, alliance with Mussolini, and war upon the… …   Wikipedia